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Providing a model for predicting academic procrastination based on multidimensional perfectionism and positive and negative effects in school students

مجله علوم روانشناختی, 2018
Background: Negative affect makes one completely ignore his homework and commit procrastination. Positive affect increases useful indices of thinking and reducing procrastination.
mahbobeh Tavoshi, Ahmad Borjali, Alireza Kiamanesh   +2 more
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Temporal discounting predicts procrastination in the real world

Scientific Reports
People procrastinate, but why? One long-standing hypothesis is that temporal discounting drives procrastination: in a task with a distant future reward, the discounted future reward fails to provide sufficient motivation to initiate work early.
Pei Yuan Zhang, Wei Ji Ma
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The Association Between Procrastination and Mood in Young Children

Procrastination is a common human behaviour defined as an irrational act of putting off important tasks knowing that the delay will have negative future consequences (Steel et al., 2007).
Houshang Tehrani Edyta Kazimiera
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Investigating Procrastination in Higher Education [PDF]

, 2017
This study aims at investigating procrastination among students in higher education. Procrastination has been studied in many fields including Psychology, Mental Health, and Educational studies.
Abdul Saman, Saman
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Trajectories of procrastination among Swedish University students over one academic year: a cohort study

BMC Psychology
Background Procrastination is common among university students and associated with adverse outcomes such as physical and mental health problems. According to the Temporal motivation theory procrastination may vary over time depending on the temporal ...
Fred Johansson, Alexander Rozental, Klara Edlund, Margreth Grotle, Ann Rudman, Irene Jensen, Eva Skillgate   +6 more
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Procrastination and academic achievement

, 2015
The present study explored whether a significant relationship exists between academic procrastination and academic achievement in high school learners within South Africa. It furthermore examined whether certain personality traits of individuals are more
Joubert, Charine Petronella
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Relationships as Commitment Devices: Strategic Silence

People who understand self-control problems can devise mechanisms to overcome them.In this paper, we discuss how relationships can help individuals overcome their selfcontrol problems by creating a tradeoff between desired present procrastination and ...
Nir, A.
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Procrastination, self-imposed deadlines and other commitment devices

In this paper we model a decision maker who must exert costly effort to complete a single task by a fixed deadline. Effort costs evolve stochastically in continuous time. The decision maker will then optimally wait to exert effort until costs are less than a
Bisin, Alberto, Hyndman, Kyle
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The relation between self-reported procrastination and behavioral procrastination

, 1999
The purpose of the present research is to study the relation between self-reported procrastination and actual procrastination within the context of a self-paced introductory level psychology class.
Wadkins, Theresa Ann
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Financial Procrastination Study

Research has regularly investigated the influence of affective states and future self-continuity on procrastination, demonstrating positive affective states and higher future self-continuity are negatively associated with procrastination (Blouin-Hudon ...
Hayley Ambrose, Fuschia Sirois
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